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STAYING PIECE FOR GARMENTS. No. 295.935. Patented Apr. 1, 1884.

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GEORGE E. NORRIS, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES K. P. PINE, OF LANSINGBURG, NEWV YORK.

STAYING-PIECE FOR GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,935, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed June 20,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: I

ments in the manner of making and applying the staying-pieces used upon the back opening and sleeve-opening of shirts, and the side openings of drawers andoveralls, as well as the front openings in the latter.

My invention consists, as will hereinafter be more fully detailed, in the combination, with a staying-piece attached to one side of the garment-slit, of a corded edge upon the subtending edge of the fly, and the latter and a corded edge upon the strip forming the fly, and an underlap made with a strip and combined corded edge where coincident with the closing edge of the fly.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are shown two figures illustrating parts of a shirt containing my. invention, and in both of which the same designation of parts by letter-reference is used.

Figure 1 shows a plan View of a shirt-back opening containing my invention, with the part of the shirt thereto adjacent. Fig. 2 illustrates a vertical section of the parts, taken 011 the line w m of Fig. 1, with the relative thickness of the material exaggeratechto better illus trate them.

The several parts of the shirt and thecornbined and corded staying-pieces are designated by letter-reference, and the manner of attaching them is described as follows:

The letter A indicates a rectangular strip of material used to produce the overlap or fly. It has a uniform width throughout its length, excepting at the bottom below the slit, where it is made pointed. This strip A, as indicated at Fig. 2, is on one of its edges sewed to one side of the slit, as indicated at S, by a line of stitching, 0 It is then turned over and down and folded at B, to receive the cord 0,

p then frontwardly folded over and past the attached edge of the slit S, so as to cover the lat ter and attach to the shirt-body S at d, with the exterior edge of the strip corded at G The underlap is made of a strip of material, A having a uniform width, and which, as indicated at Fig. 2, is on one of its edges attached to the underlap edge of the slit S It is then turned over and down longitudinally and frontwardly, is corded at O on its lapping edge, and inside of the latter is sewed to the shirtbody S at 0 At the bottom, as indicated at 0*, the piece A is transversely sewed to the piece A, as designated at 0*.

WVhile I have shown the strip A as corded on its edge where attached to the shirt-body, as well as on its fly-edge, the cording of said strip where joined to the shirt-body may be omitted, if desired, and the strip attached without the cord at that point, the cording upon the fiy'edge of the strip A being retained.

Thus made and applied, a substantial attaohment is produced to secure the parts, and a superior finish given to the shirt at that point. I

Having thusdescribed my invention, .what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In an overlapping fly for a garment-slit opening, the combination of a strip having a uniform width for attachment to the slit, and which strip is sewed on one of its edges to one edge of the slit reversely placed,is then turned over and down frontwardly, and longitudinally folded to produce a fl-y-edge subtending the slit, with the other edge of the strip sewed to the shirt-body exteriorly, so as to cover and subtend the inner union of the strip and slit, and a corded edge upon the subtending vertical edge of the fly, as shown and described.

2. In an overlapping fly for a garment-slit opening, the combination of a strip having a uniform width for attachment to the slit, and which strip is sewed on one of its edges to one edge of the slit reversely placed,is then turned over and down frontwardly, and longitudinally folded to produce a fly-edge that subtends the slit, with the other edge of the strip sewed to the shirt-body exteriorly, so as to cover and subtend the inner union of the strip and slit, a corded edge upon the fly, and a corded edge upon the exterior of the strip where attached to the shirt-body, as shown and described.

3. In an underlap for a garment-slit opcn ing, the combination of a strip of uniform width reversely placed with reference to the edge of the slit beneath the fly, and sewed thereto, turned over and down outwardly and frontwardlyfand on its outer edge attached to the shirt-body and corded, as shown and described.

4. In combination with a garment-slit opening, an overlap or fly made from a strip of material that is on one of its edges, as shown, attached to one edge of the garment-slit, and on its other edge eXteriorly attached to the shirtbody, to subtend the inner union of the strip and slit, and where folded longitudinally to oppositely subtend the slit and produce the fiy, a corded edge 011 fly and strip an underlap made of a strip that on one edge is sewed to the edge of the slit, as shown, and folded over and down exteriorly, and on its outer edge at 20 cached to the shirt-body, with its lower end transversely sewed to the overlap, and the outer edge of the piece forming the underlap corded, as herein described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 8th day of 2 June, 1883, in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto by them attached.

GEO. E. NORRIS.

\Vitnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, CHARLES I. BAKER. 

